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A firsthand perspective on the recent LinkedIn account takeover campaign

September 1, 2023 - Not long ago I wrote about a recent campaign to hold LinkedIn users’ accounts to ransom. Shortly after I published the...

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Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts

August 18, 2023 - An ongoing campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts has led to victims losing control of their accounts, or being locked out following repeated...

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News | Scams

Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener

February 24, 2023 - Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called Slinks—shortened Linkedin...

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LinkedIn introduces new security features to combat fake accounts

November 1, 2022 - LinkedIn knows it has a problem with bots and fake accounts, and has acknowledged this on more than one occasion. For...

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News | Scams

LinkedIn scams are a “significant threat”, warns FBI

June 20, 2022 - Digital currency fraud is a growing issue on social media, and LinkedIn is no different. In fact, according to according to...

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News | Privacy

Watch out for LinkedIn fakes who want to get connected

March 30, 2022 - Despite continued warnings of deepfake chaos during major events, things haven’t worked out the way some thought. Those video deepfakes are...

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News | Personal | Scams

Watch out for this bump in LinkedIn phishing

February 2, 2022 - LinkedIn is sometimes forgotten about in more general coverage of phishing attacks. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram...

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Awareness | News

Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected

June 30, 2021 - LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground...

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News | Scams

Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns

November 20, 2019 - Deepfakes haven’t quite lost the power to surprise, but given their wholesale media saturation in the last year or so, there’s...

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News | Privacy

Maybe you shouldn’t use LinkedIn

April 5, 2018 - UPDATE: 4/6/2018 LinkedIn reached out for comment on the article, and we’d like to clarify our position based on their concerns. They...

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